Bottle-stopper.



No. 731,798. PATENTED JUNE 23, 1903.

A. LUCAS. BOTTLE STOPPER.

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 14, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented June 23, 1903.-

PATENT ()FEICE.

ALBERr LUoAs, or MAeDEBUEe, GERMANY.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 731,798, dated June 23,1903. Application filed February 14,1903. Serial No.143,332. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LALBERT LUCAS, a subject of the King of Prussia, GermanEmperor, residing at Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, GermanEmpire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBottle-Stoppers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in, bottle-stoppers having a bailturning on pins projecting laterally from the body of the stopper. Thearrangement diifers from prior stoppers of this kind, inasmuch as thevertical shanks of the bail in addition to their own resilience are heldto the neck of thebottle by specialdevices, so thateven when the elas-.

ticity of the bail is more or less lost the stop per is still securelyheld. V l

My invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1shows a front elevation of my stopper applied to a bottle. Fig. 2 is aside elevation of the same, an'd'Fi'g; 3 is a rear elevation showing amodified construction ofthe stop-. is per. 5.

Figs. 4 and .5 after referred to.

The desired effect is obtained by providing the stopper 1) with pivotshaving broad flat showdetails to be hereinheads a, lying in a planeeither parallel toor at an angle to the axis of the bottle.

shanks of the. bail against the bottle when the latter is closed.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the heads a lie parallel to the axisof the bottle,while the shanks of the bail 0 lie at a certain angle tothe bottle-axis corresponding to the form of the head of the bottle.Thus here also the shanks of the bail c in the closed position arepressed against the neck or head of the bottle by the lower edges of thepin-heads a.

Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the action exerted on the shanks of the bail cby the heads a of the pins. In these figures the heads a are elongated,constituting eccentrics, so that the lower portion of the head below thepin is somewhat larger than the upper part. In this manner, as Figs. 4and 5 show, the bail c on being turned over into the closed position isdisplaced laterally in the direction toward the bottle-head,the'displacement being that indicated by the letter as.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In bottle-stoppers having a swing-bail, lateral pins, by which thebail is pivoted to the stopper, provided with heads locatedeccentrically of the axis of the said pins and acting to press thebail-shanks closely against the bottle-neck, substantially as described@2. In bottle-stoppers having a swing-bail, lateral pins by which thebail c is pivoted to the stopper, provided with heads a. inclined to thebottle-axis, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT LUCAS.

